The top seven global warming alarmist setbacks in 2013

By DanG, on December 22nd, 2013 at 12:38:12pmClimatePatrol.comIndianapolis, IN

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Hold your champagne glasses high this holiday season, because the end of 2013 marks the 17th year without global warming.

1) Studies show that the world was warmer than it is today during the Roman Empire and when the Vikings were plundering Europe and North America. In fact, even in the 19th Century, there were discussions surrounding the fact that the Vikings could settle the northernmost reaches of Greenland and North America because there was less ice coverage.

2) During the second week in December, the U.S. saw more than 2000 record low temperatures and record snowfalls, according to the National Weather Service and HamWeather records center. There were 606 record low temperatures, 1,234 low maximum temperatures and 285 record snowfalls across the country. In the meantime there were only 98 high temperature records and 141 high minimum temperature records.

3) Satellite data shows that the polar bears have at least one reason to be happy this year – Arctic sea ice coverage was up 50 percent over last year’s record low coverage. Contrary to Al Gore’s prediction that there would be no polar ice cap by this year, sea ice coverage spanned nearly 2,100 cubic miles by the end of this year’s melting season, up from about 1,400 cubic last year.

‘Preaching to the choir’ (also sometimes spelled quire) is of US origin. It clearly refers to the pointlessness of a preacher attempting to convert those who, by their presence in church, have already demonstrated their faith. The first reference we can find is from 1973. Many other references date from soon after that, which points to the phrase being coined in that year; for example, this from The Lima News, Ohio, January 1973:

“He said he felt like the minister who was preaching to the choir. That is, to the people who always come to church, but not the ones who need it most.”

john stuart millThe phrase may not be old but it does express the same idea as an earlier phrase – ‘preaching to the converted’, and is almost certainly a follow-on from that. This dates back around a century further and is first cited in the works of John Stuart Mill. He used the phrase in, An Examination of Sir W. Hamilton’s Philosophy, 1867: http://phrases.org.uk/meanings/preaching-to-the-choir.html